Sunday, June 15, 2025
Our critics picked 10 performances that have offered a robust alternative to the here and now with a tonic of beauty, rage and wisdom.
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A WILD NIGHT WITH COUNT TOLSTOY Even those who haven’t read Tolstoy’s great novel know about the train under which the despairing Anna will die. So it dominates from the …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:37AMFriday, June 13, 2025
PHYSICAL, PIRATICAL, PLAYFUL All aboard the Jolly Todger, where Long John Silver’s parrot Alexa (she comes from the Amazon, get it?) keeps accidentally ordering unwanted Chinese…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:46AMLexee Smith, who works closely with Addison Rae, is an outlier: a commercial dance artist with an experimental bent.
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Campaigners including Arlene Phillips and Matthew Bourne welcome funding for National Dance CATs they say keeps art form from being preserve of elite
Campaigners from the world of dance incl…
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Stars turned out for show tunes and spirited celebrations that included an official after-party at the Museum of Modern Art and a gathering at the Carlyle Hotel.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12AMDREAM ON! Five years on, beyond Covid lockdowns and its magnificent Guys and Dolls, here again is the Bridge’s irresistible multi-mouse take on Shakespeare’s sunniest comedy of…
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Saturday, June 7, 2025
The nearly 11,000-seat Muny in St. Louis is receiving the regional theater Tony Award. This week it began preparing to open its 107th season with “Bring It On.”
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Playwright urges theatre to cut ties with bank, which has been criticised for providing financial services to defence firms supplying Israel
The playwright Caryl Churchill has pulled out of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMGeorge Clooney, Audra McDonald, Daniel Dae Kim, Sarah Snook and other Broadway stars talk about the challenges they’ve faced — and surmounted.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12AMExclusive: Demand the Impossible interrogates police injustice and infiltration of 1,000 political groups
There’s one moment from the public inquiry into undercover police officers – kno…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AMWednesday, June 4, 2025
National Theatre and RSC directors among signatories to letter decrying proposed changes to Access to Work scheme
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More than 2,500 figures from the arts in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02PMWHY RATTIGAN COUNTS Quite a rare outing for this very late Terence Rattigan play, written after his star had fallen under the assault of mouthy Osborne, Amis and the “angry young men” …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:26AMTuesday, June 3, 2025
Joint artistic directors Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey say 2025/26 programme is celebration of ‘a 21st-century RSC’
Adrian Lester transforming into Cyrano de Bergerac, Alfred Enoch taki…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24PMMonday, June 2, 2025
A Trisha Brown company tour recalls a time when Rauschenberg, one of the country’s most influential artists, was changing and being changed by American dance.
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BROWN BRITISH LIVES, FROM ENOCH TO SUNAK Sathnam Sanghera’s novel drew on his own life, partly homage to Arnold Bennett and with some echoes of Priestley too, joined the fine chronicle…
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From the dancers and musicians that lit up the social clubs of 1950s Havana, to robots sitting idle in a near-future South Korea, to undead divas with a thirst for glamour, this year's Tony …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:02PMAcross the country, you’ll find Shakespeare in amphitheaters, exciting new works on intimate stages and many regional repertories in bucolic settings.
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It is indeed PLUTO not Apollo who rules the Underworld. Was tired. Apologies to all classicists.
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:53AMSONDHEIM AND THE STYX I last saw this 405BC Greek classic in Spymonkey’s version and found it – sorry – unfroggettable. Giant puppetry, a community chorus tap-dancing as frogs w…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:19AMWednesday, May 28, 2025
It could be that the youngest dancers are the real stars of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at New York City Ballet.
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Nick Harkaway sees parallels with postwar period as The Spy Who Came in from the Cold comes to the West End
Russia’s war in Ukraine has reignited “cold war strategies”, according to t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMMonday, May 19, 2025
Some big shows and troupes will perform, while others will stay away. And in a shift, the center will present some Broadway shows with nonunion casts.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:42PMBefore he served in Iraq, Román Baca was a ballet dancer. Now he helps other veterans deal with their trauma — through dance.
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He trained as a movement actor. Now he’s leaning into physical theater as a Helperbot in the Tony-nominated “Maybe Happy Ending.”
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DROWNING PASSION, TIMELESS RESCUE Marvellous play, this: wrenches the heart out of you , patches it up and sets it back on the hard road of life and love. It wrenched Terence Rattigan h…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:13AMI said it all at the Royal Court – https://theatrecat.com/2024/11/09/giant-royal-court-theatre/ – and it is an event not to miss, especially the way the world is in 2025. Everythi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:19AMWednesday, May 14, 2025
When Broadway.com came on the scene 25 years ago, long-running hits like Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera and Miss Saigon were neighbors with new musicals like Aida, Contact and Th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:18PMWELL WORTH THE MONEYPENNY This is glorious: just what we all needed. In the company’s spirit of never wasting a terrible joke, I absolutely Bond-ed to it. Following Mischi…
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